Here is a quick guide to getting all your important emails offline. If you live by the email, you would like it. You can have mail delivered to desktop client and you can read them even without internet, compose offline messages and send them whenever you are online. You can download all your mails on your computer and it will be in sync with your online account. This can be used with a Hotmail account locally, and with Gmail and other POP/IMAP services with a little more action. The emails can even be accessed behind http proxies which do not allow imap/pop/smtp to go through them. Please remember that this process requires a hotmail account.